[edejong]

Same story as one I shared 4 years ago. Seems to be the best tactic! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031932

Edit: don’t want to sound accusatory

[jeremysalwen]

No need to be accusatory. The stories are different, just the learned behavior is the same. And not very surprising, considering your story was pre-empted by Pac-Man speedrunners, who already discovered this technique, which they call "kiting".

You can see the paper OP wrote to confirm for yourself that their story is not the same as yours: https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/15376/906989....

[TomAnthony]

Hah - thank you for sharing!

That is very interesting that this emerged from two different approaches.

I published my result years back, and have never heard of this emerging elsewhere before!

Didn’t take it as accusatory [but thanks to child for sharing link :)].

[wildmanx]

"Completely predictable" is different from "This would minimize the probability of being fenced in by the four ghosts." no?